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Anita  J.  La  Salle  Computer  and  Informa/on  Science  and  Engineering  Directorate  

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Risk-­‐Averse  Culture  Infects  U.S.  Workers,  Entrepreneurs  Updated  June  2,  2013  

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Building  the  NaCon’s  I-­‐Corps™  “Fabric”  

I-­‐Corps™  Nodes  

I-­‐Corps™  Sites    

I-­‐Corps™  Teams    

I-­‐Corps™  Mentors  

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NSF  InnovaCon-­‐Corps  Teams  Flow  Diagram  Pool  of  eligible  PIs  

&  projects:  

~50,000  projects  (NSF)  

RecruiCng  processes    (NSF)  

Pool  of  eligible    Teams  (from  NSF):  •  Entrepreneurial  Lead  

•  PI  •  Mentor  

Team  SelecCon  (NSF)  

Node  Assignment  

(NSF)  

Awarded  I-­‐Corps  Teams  (NSF)  

Curriculum  Delivery  &  Refinement  (Nodes)  

Customer  Discovery  

(Teams/Nodes)  

Business  Model  

Canvasses  (Teams)  

“Go”  Decision  (Teams)  

“No-­‐Go”  Decision  (Teams)  

Resource  Infusion  

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Strategic  Partnership  

Private  CapitalizaCon  

Public  Funding    (e.g.,  SBIR,  STIR,  ….  )  

Private  Sector  

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The  I-­‐Corps™  “Grass-­‐Roots  “  AcCvity  –  Teams  How  to  become  and  I-­‐Corps  Team  

Join  a  monthly  Webinar,  check  out  our  website   Form  your  I-­‐Corps  

Team  

Send  us  your  Execu/ve  Summary  

Engage  in  Telephone  Interviews  

Immerse  in  I-­‐Corps  

Curriculum  at  a  Node  

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A few examples… from our >350 Teams

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New  way  to  organize,  browse  and  share  your  photos.  

 Acquired  by  Dropbox!  

Developed  so*ware  to  annotate  a  large  number  of  images  quickly  and  accurately  

Combining  human  input  with  an  annota<on  algorithm  Facilitate  image  analysis  

 

Founders  Serge  Belongie  Professor  at  UC  San  Diego    Peter  Welinder  Award-­‐winning  research  in  computer  vision,  machine  learning  and  crowdsourcing.    Boris  Babenko  Co-­‐founder  of  @Anchovi  Labs,  Inc.    

CISE  Lineage  

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“Smart  and  yummy  educa<onal  anima<ons,  mini–games,  and  interac<ve  tools  that  help  mid-­‐school  learners  beCer  understand  math  concepts.”    New  Mexico  State  University  

EHR  Lineage  

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Stephen  DiMagno's  fundamental  research  in  chemistry  led  to  developed  a  new  way  to  make  imaging  agents  for  staging  and  managing  certain  cancers,  including  pediatric  cancers,  cardiac  disease,  as  well  as  various  neurological  disorders,  like  Alzheimer's  disease  and  Parkinson's  disease.    University  of  Nebraska  -­‐  Lincoln  Department  of  Chemistry    

Researcher  founds  company  that  manufactures  molecules  that  become  imaging  agents  for  managing  cancer,  cardiac  disease  

and  neurological  disorders.  

MPS  Lineage  

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North  Carolina

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…  Bio-­‐Adhesive  Alliance  was  selected  as  the  $25,000  grand  prize  winner.  The  start-­‐up  company  is  a  spin-­‐out  from  NC  A&T  State  University  that  has  developed  an  innova/ve  technology  to  produce  liquid  asphalt  from  swine  manure.      According  to  the  company,  “This  technology  provides  a  sustainable  and  cost-­‐effec/ve  solu/on  to  swine  manure  treatment  while  reducing  pavement  construc/on  and  maintenance  cost.”      The  Bio-­‐Adhesive  Alliance  team  completed  the  Na/onal  Science  Founda/on’s  commercializa/on  program  known  as  I-­‐Corps.  

Bio-­‐Adhesive  Alliance  

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A  wall-­‐climbing  robot  system  based  on  the  teams  "City-­‐Climber"  technology  for  building  façade  inspec/on  and  glass  wall  cleaning  applica/ons.  The  current  prac/ce  of  manual  inspec/on  of  building  façade  is  /me-­‐consuming,  expensive,  and  poses  risk  to  human  workers.    The  City-­‐Climber  technology  provides  a  solu/on  to  meet  a  strong  demand  for  automated  inspec/on  of  building  façades.  In  addi/on,  the  City-­‐Climber  robots  can  be  modified  to  carry  out  tasks  such  as  to  clean  glass  walls  and  solar  panels.  Under  prior  funding,  this  team  developed  several  wall-­‐climbing  robot  prototypes,  named  City-­‐Climber.    

Mul/ple  Lineage  

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Forbes "[...Neon]  is  now  integra/ng  her  research  into  an  algorithm  that  helps  determine  which  online  images  produce  the  greatest  number  of  clicks."  

Sophie  Lebrecht,  Carnegie  Mellon  University,  Entrepreneurial  Lead;    Mike  Tarr,  PI;  Babs  Carryer,  Mentor    Sophie  Lebrecht  iden/fied  that  the  brain  computes  a  very  rough,  very  rapid  and  automa/c  snapshot  of  percep/on  in  order  to  es/mate  the  likability  of  an  object.  They  had  essen/ally  discovered  a  way  to  predict  the  images  people  would  be  most  adracted  to,  and  that  image  discovery  had  huge  market  poten/al—any/me  there  is  an  image,  and  you  want  a  human  to  relate  to  that  image,  the  research  is  applicable.  

NEON  

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Magdy  Iskander,  University  of  Hawaii  NSF  Industry/University  Collabora/ve  Research  

Center  (I/U  CRC)  

“All  in  all  ,  ICORPS  has  been  a  most  rewarding  experience  in  my  over  35  years  in  academia.  ICORPS  is  magic,  transforma<ve  and  most  effec<ve,  in  a  deceivingly  simple  way,  in  invigora<ng  interstate  in  commercializa<on  and  makes  believers  out  of  academic  doubters.    …  We  are  most  grateful  for  the  opportunity  and  wholeheartedly  thank  you  for  having  our  team  being  a  part  of  this  outstanding  program.”    

Microwave  Stethoscope  

Within  months  aier  comple/ng  I-­‐Corps,  this  team  formed  a  company,  MIWa  Technologies,  LLC.    

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Rather  than  lejng  the  woody  side  products  of  logging  go  up  in  smoke,  this  team  at  the  University  of  Washington  developed  a  heat-­‐resistant  laminate  "blanket"  that  wraps  around  the  slash  pile  to  form  a  biochar-­‐baking  kiln  that  converts  woody  debris  into  biochar-­‐-­‐a  greener  alterna/ve  to  coal  that  can  also  be  used  as  a  nutrient-­‐rich  soil  addi/ve  for  organic  gardeners.    The  new  blanket-­‐-­‐created  in  partnership  with  the  Confederated  Salish  and  Kootenai  Tribes  (CSKT)  in  the  Pacific  Northwest-­‐-­‐is  the  key  product  of  a  start-­‐up  company  formed  by  three  of  the  team  members.    

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“Selected  as  a  GigaOm  "Best  of  the  Best"  finalist  for  new  start-­‐up”  

“They've  already  received  $1  mm  in  Angel  financing  and  are  going  out  for  their  series  A  round  now.”  

“Development  model  for  web  and  mobile  applica<ons.      AppScale  is  the  open  source  implementa<on  of  Google  App  Engine  cloud  pla[orm.”  

PI:  Chandra  Krintz  University  of  California-­‐Santa  Barbara  “AppScale  -­‐-­‐  Spurring  InnovaCon  Through  Cloud  ApplicaCon  Portability”  

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Building  the  NaCon’s  I-­‐Corps™  “Fabric”  I-­‐Corps™  Nodes  

I-­‐Corps™  Sites    

I-­‐Corps™  Teams    

I-­‐Corps™  Mentors  

What  are  we  trying  to  achieve  with  I-­‐Corps™  ?      -­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐